Welcome to my
Web Portfolio--Summer 2011!
And by the way everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~Sylvia Plath
This quote by Plath sums up my summer. My blog, demonstration, movie, and web portfolio were all created by overcoming some inhibition--fear of exposure, ineptitude, mediocrity, and/or technology. There is something so comforting about the status quo, what we know, or what we internalize that we don't want others to see.
My blog is
particularly exposing, laying bare thoughts and beliefs
that I have long thought but may not have articulated to
many people. Posting it online for anyone to see was
quite frightening, and therefore, rewarding. I hope
you enjoy the agéd musings of my 40-something
brain.
Here is one of my
most recent poems as an example of my self-discovery as a
writer...
Habit of Love
Completely covered
Hidden from all except your husband
HIM
I've played a nun so many times, the habit stifling
in its severity
Heat gathered under layers of unbreathable cotton
Breasts chafing with sweat and course fabric
A sacrifice for the play, the production, so unlike
your true losses
Chastity, humility--words I barely accept as
Authentic
You trust HIM implicity
A faith I never understood, though envied
To me it was hurried memorized phrases
Going through the motions,
up,
down,
cross
What would it be like to feel so utterly loved
Every cell knowing it belonged
Easy to joke about the garb
Perhaps the joke's on me....
- My Blog
- My Demonstration and
Discussions
- My Media Projects
- My Readings and Responses
- UIWP Newspaper (Part of my Demonstration)
- UIWP